GeorgiaWaterTanks

LLC registration (tip:  Legal Zoom was worthless, and Georgia Secretary of State website VERY easy to use)

Business License – Dekalb County was a pleasure to work with.  Really. Had a little trouble categorizing the business, which surprised me.  How many manufacturer rep firms are there??? According to these guys anyway, the NAICS number is 541613. 

The zoning department could have been my biggest obstacle, as there could be a real problem if I were storing the huge tanks in my front yard. Nice to see a little trust, even if they make a note to later check on me.

Liability Insurance – For a small company like mine, shopping the web was easiest.  I definitely recommend using a few of the services, especially if your business doesn’t fit a neat category.  GWT is going to be mostly sales, but also a little jobsite labor.

Both the Licensing and the Insurance people want to know “how much are you going to sell this year?”  So do I!  I decided to guess low.  I think that they audit these things after your first year, and adjust next year’s bill accordingly.

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Please join me in welcoming Amanda Grissom to the Georgia Water Tanks team. Amanda brings a wealth of project management, logistics, quality control, and above-ground poly tank application expertise, having worked for Rotoplas USA for the past 2 years.  As a Rotoplas distributor, I have worked with her often, and find her to be not only highly skilled, but also proactive and personable.

Her official title is Project Manager, but in a small organization you do what you can to help the team. Her contact information is as follows:

agrissom@georgiawatertanks.com

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Conventional wisdom is that people use about 100 gallons per day of water. My family averages less than 50, but maybe 100 GPD includes water use embedded in things we buy or use. About 350,000,000 people live in the USA. So adding the data on rainfall from this page, the Lower 48 receive about 100x the amount of water needed. That’s pure water desalinated and transported without any man made energy. Just need to be more efficient in collecting it.

That’s where rainwater harvesting comes in. Most every single-family home could collect enough water to meet the needs of the residents, especially when combined with graywater treatment and reuse. The technology is mature and reliable, and becoming more affordable every year. The process is specified in plumbing codes. The products are certified by independent third parties.

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The Community Foundation for Greater Georgia offers water (and energy) efficiency grants for nonprofits. The Grants-to-Green program has been very popular. It awards grants twice a year. For more information, click here: 

For religious organizations, Georgia Interfaith Power & Light, gipl.org, offers energy efficiency grants, but not for water. Yet! Please contact and encourage them here!

They also offer rainbarrel workshops. For more information, click here.  Here’s hoping that they don’t use translucent rain barrels anymore!

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Another community garden is ready for the rain! We do some installations ourselves, but our goal is to teach contractors how to add rainwater harvesting to their portfolio of services.

Like many of these community gardens, this school takes water from a single downspout. A 4″ pipe brings rainwater to an above-ground tank, which has a basket-style prefilter. Yes these require cleaning, but they are most popular. A typical rainstorm will fill the tank.

This project didn’t use a pump, but most do.

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